The Telos NX-12 Talkshow phone system

I have worked with my Telos telephone interfaces in various studios. They are well designed and intuitively designed pieces of equipment. The Telos NX-12 is no different. The first thing different about this telephone system is the web interface. I have commented before on this; eventually all broadcast equipment will have some type of http interface. For configuration and monitoring, it makes life much simpler.

The NX-12 itself is just a box residing in the rack room. This is where all of the pots lines or the PRI-ISDN line is installed, firewire, network interface, etc.

The studio end is the call director, which is connected to the NX-12 by a cat 5 cable. There can be up to four call directors per NX-12.

The nice thing about the NX-12 is that the hybrid can be split into completely separate units, thus one NX-12 can be used for two separate stations, each with up to six lines. Splitting the hybrid thus requires the use of Firewire or the unit must have an AES card.